Fisheries committee  There is a breakwater at the entrance to our wharf. If it continued further out to sea, where there is more water, boats could come in from several directions and go around the sand accumulating along the strand. However, the breakwater was built in two phases. It was supposed to

Fisheries committee  Dredging costs approximately $200,000 per year. It always depends on the weather. Where we are, a northeast wind always results in silting. If there has not been much wind from the northeast during the fishing season, there is no problem and we have water. But as soon as we have

Fisheries committee  On Lamèque island. We put energy into these requests, but all we really do is to change the date on the documents and send them in again to Fisheries and Oceans Canada. The people at Fisheries and Oceans and at Public Works Canada know that the dredging has to be done in our case

Fisheries committee  You talked about closing down wharves. I just had a discussion not too long ago with an employee from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, who asked me why we would not close down a wharf. Don't even think about it: the wharf is the soul of the community. Wharves have been the

Fisheries committee  You said that the wharf was the soul of the community. That is absolutely true, because in our community, we all live off fishing. I am in my 30s, and I expect to spend the rest of my working life fishing. That takes a lot of investment. I have been chairman of the harbour author

Fisheries committee  My name is Marc Paulin and I am president of the Ste-Marie-St-Raphaël Harbour Authority. There are approximately 30 lobster fishermen working from the wharf. We fish herring and mackerel. Sometimes, depending on the year, some boats from outside come to fish for herring in the f